CARDARIA DRABA (L.) Desv. – Hoary Cress

Syn.: Lepidium draba L.
Family: Brassicaceae Burnett

Distribution: Native of Mediterranean and Central Asian, today abundantly naturalized almost in the whole world – Europe, North and South America, Arabia etc.
Habitat: It grows as weed in fields, orchards, gardens, parks, on wasteland, rubbles and trenches.
Description: A grey-downy perennial herb up to 50(-70) cm high, the basal leaves ovate, stem leaves eliptical up to 10 cm in length. The flowers in branched, crowded racemes, corollas white. Flowers from April to July.
Note: The seeds have taste like pepper.



These images were taken in the Czech Republic, Prague, quarry in Radotínské údolí (date: 21. 4. 2007).